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18. CHALCOPHAPS INDICA—THE BRONZE-WINGED DOVE. 
Chaleophaps indica (Linn.); Salvad. t.c., p. 514; Sharpe, t.c., p. 84. 
e Bronze-winged Ground Dove is found throughout the Penin- 
sula in suitable localities and is equally abundant on east and west 
coasts. It frequents, as a rule, damp localities and gullies in old and 
fairly open jungle, but is occasionally found in second growth forest, 
and I have even seen it in the Kuala Lumpur Public Gardens. 
Almost exclusively a ground bird, it runs with considerable swiftness, 
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large numbers by the use of a decoy bud and a bamboo call known as 
dekok punai. 
GENERAL RaANaE.— е forest tracts of India and Ceylon; through- 
out Indo-China, the Malay Peninsula zs bp Ec as far east as 
the Philippines and the west of New Gui 
Maray Name.—Punai tana. 
19. GEOPELIA STRIATA—THE BARRED GROUND-DOVE, 
Geopelia striata (Linn.) Salvad. t.c., p. 458; Sharpe, t.c., p. 80. 
The Barred Ground Dove is (pex иа ш throughout the 
Te is perbspe pie is never — d in high forest and but rarely in bluker. 
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the Malays and high prices are pai aid for “lucky ” birds, luck or the 
reverse being diagnosed by counting the number of scales on the toes. 
QENERAL RaANaE.—From Southern Tenasserim and Siam, еке s 
out the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago as far as Celebes, Amboin: 
id the Philippines. 
Maray Name.—Merbok ; ketitir. 
20, TURTUR HUMILIS—THE RED TURTLE-DOVE,. 
Turtur humilis ((Temm.) ; Salvad. t.c., p. 434; ens L6 p. 79. 
e. Red Turtle Dove is an extremely rare bird in ‚ the Malay 
Peni ini and, so far as I am aware, only three specimens are defi- 
ntl recorded from within our limits, being one obtained by Wallace 
n Malacca and two by Dr. Maingay in the same locality. “All three 
pe now in the British Museum collection, 
Eger Rawer.—From Eastern Bengal through Burma and 
asserim to the Andamans, Malay Peninsula, emere Frea, 
ines, China and Јарап, 
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